hip aiming is still important. a soldier will more than likely leave thier weapon near thier hip instead of using the ironsights 24/7 our of stamina (it's harder to hold a weapon at your shoulder) and to improve his FOV (at a shoulder-ready position your right (left for southpaws ) side of your vision is severely imapred.IMO, you are just arguing aabout something which my opinion, and htat of others, is fixed in concrete.

this is important ESPECIALLY in CQB. if you have that little bit blocked, almost clear a room, but have one guy hiding beside you, you're dead. period. also, the models will fold like a pair of twos against a royal flush. there is no way to get around this until the ET engine is GPL'd. it would also take forever to put in. you'd need to
1. re-work the models completely (not that hard, really) skin them, then animate them (estimated time: 1-2 months for a complete re-work for one team (at the least) so about 5-8 months for the whole thing)
2. re-write a good 1000+ lines of code (about 2 months, give or take)
3. test for bugs, and write a good 100+ lines o' code to fix them (at LEAST 2 months for testing, given nothing goes wrong.(of which Mr. Murphy says no) a major bug would cause there to be a near-complete re-write of the code. so from 2-12 months, probably about 6)

and to put i t all together (barring major complications) 10-20 months.

another year wait would drive TT and G6S's reputation to the ground.chances are, a good chunk of the community would leave. (also remember that's not including bugfixes to existing problems, and the inevitable new features.)

take a large book. stick it on your shoulder. tell me that doesn't block your view.

CHANGING THE MODELS TO LINE UP PERFECTLY IS IMPOSSIBLE. LIVE WITH IT.

*edit. mmkay, I was getting a bit mad there....

Changing the models/animations would be extremely hard, and take a very long time. it might even be enough to put TC:E out for good (see PoP and it's issues.)

does it look like RL, no. but it's a game. some things can't be changed. if you want, I'll get a SS of CoD, a REALISM GAME made by a MAJOR CORPORATION and how their ironsights line up. I know I'll be abl to get it monday. if I play my cards right, today.

the 30s? There was nolonger a main war featuring soldier srunning around in US military uniforms that frankly, FYI the image shows a WWII uniform. They run with the gun low because they are preparing for a bayonet assualt. It is much easier to use the bayonet with the gun low, they arent aiming the gun at all, but the bayonet. TCE is in the 80s, and it isnt the army or any regular military force.